Church Of St Leonard

NY 45 NE 6/156

WETHERAL WARWICK Church of St Leonard

II* Church. C12, with alterations 1869 by R.J. Withers and 1908-9 by J.H. Martindale. Dressed red sandstone walls, graduated slate roof with decorative ridge tiles and coped gables. Nave of 3 bays with porch, chancel of one bay with semicircular apse. Nave has projecting gabled porch to west with south facing entrance, dated 1908. Nave has battered plinth, with 2 light and single pointed lancets of 1869. Stone corbelled bellcote to west gable. Similar chancel windows with angle buttress having rebus of Prior Thornton of Wetheral, of early C16. Apse has 13 niches between square pilasters with rounded arches, pierced by 3 small round-headed lancets. Chancel roof carried over vestry, projecting from the north wall, dating from 1869. Interior has former tower arch, which Pevsner dates to c1130, having engaged columns of 2 orders, with scallop capitals and rounded moulded arch. Barrel vaulted plank ceiling to nave and chancel, with plastered walls. C19 font and small stone pulpit. Windows have diamond and square leaded panels of coloured glass, with aid-C19 figurature stained glass to west window and apse. Various references are made to the former tower, now demolished. This was a chapel belonging to the Priory of Wetheral and later to the Dean & Chapter of Carlisle. See Pevsner, Buildings of England, (C & W volume) p.198.

Listing NGR: NY4660056800